Re: [MiNT] Stability of mint ext2fs

[John Blakeley <john.blakeley@mon.bbc.co.uk>]

Hi!

I find it _reasonably_ stable on my Falcon040. I have 3 drives as ext2 and
2 as minix. The KGMD filesystem is on minix and I don't really have any
problems with that, now that I have moved /home - ext2 - onto another
drive.

I have trashed /home twice, since ext2's latest incarnation, probably due
to unclean system power-downs with AES4.1 running. I have to say though,
that I did manage to retrieve *_every_single_file_* using fsck.ext2.

The only caveat I have found, is that because we have no way of cleanly
unmounting any filesystem, running fsck as per the script in Frank's
latest kernel release, is imperative. I would say that a third of the
time, it does perform some (v. small) filesystem modifications. I don't do
"quick-boots" anymore, and with 5, non-TOS filesystems totalling over
2.5Gb, that does take quite a bit of time. Of course, if I could get the
parallelising fsck to work, this might be a lot quicker!

I would go for it, back-up regulary (you do anyway, don't you?), check the
filesystems every boot and enjoy the speed increase.

Salut/.

J/.
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John Blakeley

ps a huge thank-you to Frank for his effort